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and leaf-surfaces sparsely hispidulous or nearly glabrous, is the char- 
acteristic form of E. ramosus in western Newfoundland, the Mari- 
time Provinces and northern New England, where typical E. ramosus 
is apparently very local. This same form is found across northern 
New York, around the Great Lakes, and in the northwestern states, 
where it was long ago noted by Gray, who, on account of its pubescence 
placed it with E. annuus of eastern America, with the comment: “also 
in Oregon, &c., in a form quite intermediate between this [E. annuus] 
and the following [E. strigosus Muhl. i. e. E. ramosus (Walt.) B S P.]”.! 
In its habit and in the entire margin of the upper leaves the plant so 
strongly resembles E. ramosus that, in spite of the more spreading 
character of the pubescence, it seems better treated as a northern 
variety of this widely distributed species. In its geographic range 
it is closely paralleled by a large number of plants occurring in the 
cooler moist regions of the Canadian zone. South of northern New 
England the plant is apparently rare in the East, but a few specimens 
indicate that, like many other Canadian plants, it extends southward 
through the hill country of western Connecticut. 
A specimen in the Gray Herbarium from western New York, bearing 
the Torrey «€ Gray label, is marked E. strigosus 8, and from its nearly 
glabrous stem and leaves is undoubtedly the plant described by Torrey 
& Gray as E. strigosus B with “stem and leaves nearly glabrous; 
the latter almost constantly entire, except the lowest.” ? Torrey € 
Gray, however, cited as a synonym E. integrifolium Bigelow,’ which 
was described by Bigelow with the stem “smooth....with barely 
perceptible pubescence”; but, although a fragment of Bigelow's plant 
preserved in the Gray Herbarium shows his E. integrifolium to 
have a smoothish stem, the leaves are closely cinereous-strigose as in 
the ordinary form of the species. 
Since no name seems to have been previously applied to the northern 
plant it may be called:— 
ERIGERON RAMOSUS (Walt.) B S P., var. septentrionalis, n. var., 
caule foliisque tenuiter hispidulis vel fere glabris.— Resembling E. 
ramosus but with the stem and leaves sparingly hispidulous or nearly 
glabrous, instead of cinereous-strigose.— Newfoundland and eastern 
Quebec to northern and western New England, northern and western 
New York, and Michigan; and from Washington to California and 
l Gray, Synop. Fl. i. pt. 2, 219 (1884). 
? Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 176 (1841). 
? Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 302 (1824). 
